Yeah I had a lot of issues as a kid too and being angry felt a hell of a lot better than being sad. Eventually it just got exhausting though. I can only imagine how annoying I was for other people to deal with. At least I was never one to lash out at others too much thanks to my mother showing me how it felt to be on the receiving end of that all the time.

Being angry is still basically my default emotional state but it’s at least much less intense than it used to be which I think is a decent achievement considering how much there is to be angry about these days

Just imagine coming up with shit like this being the only job you can find and not jumping off a building instead.

They’re working to make home users care. I get a full screen popup every couple weeks reminding me that Win 10 is going out of support and my pc isn’t eligible to upgrade. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them get more aggressive with that shit in October. I also ran into issues with 7 where apps would just refuse to work on it so they have that route to fuck us too.

I’m a bitter, angry, mfer and I need to chill out sometimes

Yea, they’re racing to the bottom or whatever’s beneath the bottom. Nothing innovative for the customer. Just controlling them to harvest their data.

I was talking about this with one of my friends a couple weeks ago and bitching about how I can’t find a phone to replace mine that wouldn’t be a massive downgrade in terms of what I can do with it. He was joking and said “Maybe you should just get an Iphone” and I was like… at this point maybe I should what difference would it make?

It’s not all my data but I use backblaze for offsite backup. One of the reasons I can’t drop Windows. I don’t have anywhere I travel often enough to do a physical drop off and when I tried setting a file server up at my parents but they would break shit by fucking with their router every time they had an internet outage or moving it around (despite repeated being told to call me first).

It’s pretty obvious that by “it” they meant the issue.

Hyper-V could literally suck my dick all day and I still wouldn’t use it if there’s a non-microsoft option that works. Not interested in being the test group for any more of their shit or get rug-pulled at the worst moment.

In practice I don’t know if I’ve ever had a relevant short come up when I was trying to find how to do a specific thing. Usually if I need help with something it’s more complicated than a short would allow for. I have seen “How to” shorts for all kinds of stuff come across my feed though that were pretty good. So if one came up when I was looking for how to do something I would watch it. That quick, concise format is exactly what I want usually when I’m trying to figure out how to do something. It skips all the “Hi I’m xxxx, welcome to my channel, blah blah blah” shit that the longer videos have. My main point was that not all this content is worthless brainrot stuff. Regardless of if it’s useful to you or me in particular someone else may find it valuable.

Totally forgot Windows 8. We skipped it because of how shitty it was.

What is “half baked dog shit” about it?

The fact that they’re moving things over slowly instead of just fucking finishing it before they deploy it all at once. They’ve been doing this since Windows 10 came out, they have a trillion dollars. There’s no excuse to have it be half assed for so long especially considering “Settings” isn’t even an improvement.

What was easier to find in the control panel than it is in settings?

Literally everything? You don’t have to click through 14 different menus to drill down to what you’re looking for. It’s all on one window in Control Panel. Just look at Devices and Printers in Control Panel vs. Devices in settings or Programs and Features vs. Apps and features the newer versions have far less information available at a glance.

You’ve never actually used windows 11, have you?

I use it every day on my work PC. It runs like ass.

I know what the point is. It sucks.

Firstly they still have the control panel.

For now

Secondly they are slowly transitioning everything relevant from the control panel to the settings app.

The settings app is half-baked dog shit.

Thirdly even having everything in the control panel didn’t make it easy to find exactly what you wanted.

It was certainly easier than the current state of things.

This makes it so you can just say “set my power profile to balanced” and it would do so. That’s a nice, welcome addition.

Sure assuming the AI understands your request and the setting you want hasn’t been removed because they wanted to put everything in the settings app and the one you wanted conflicts with their data gathering and add presentation and it’s not running in the background bogging down your system all the time or trying to interject itself into whatever you’re trying to do without involving it.

Perhaps you could just make them easier to find by putting them in one location… You could call it a “control panel”.

I don’t really try to consume shorts but YouTube presents them regardless of if you’re looking for them or not. I don’t even search out woodworking or gardening, I usually look for specific “how to disassemble things” videos or guides for video games but the algorithm always seems to get there sooner or later. Sometimes something will catch my eye and I’ll watch it which is how I discovered these guys. I don’t really doomscroll on shorts and if I start it’s usually only 2-3 videos before I hit something stupid that snaps me out of it but I’ve literally never watched https://www.youtube.com/@WorkshopCompanion full videos or seen one of them on my dashboard but their shorts are insanely dense with information. They’re my ideal YouTube “how to” video. If all content creators where like that we’d be living in the futuristic part of that one meme. My point was not all short form content is bad.

Here’s a few that have been coming up for me lately.

https://www.youtube.com/@WorkshopCompanion/shorts

https://www.youtube.com/@RexKrueger/shorts

https://www.youtube.com/@GrowVeg/shorts

For the AI one to restrict it from children you have to determine the age of the person accessing it. How do you do that and still allow them to maintain anonymity? You would need some identification to do that reliably which means for the adults using it this site now has a database of whatever ID you had to send them to verify. Or if it’s using a credit card or some government hosted verification then those entities have a database of what sites you’re using tied to your name.

For banning short form content. How do you quantify what counts? Is it just the length of the video? You’re going to be throwing out a lot of very useful videos along with the brain rot if you use that. I could point you to several craftsman channels that produce very informative shorts. If it’s case by case who is the judge? What are the criteria?

Instead I’m just doing 2 examples and keep it shallow :

Th is case: A 14yo should not have completely unsupervised access to an ai chat bot - it needs to be by family/child account, same as for e.g. Fortnite. Also, given the nature of the matter and looking at the article: if the chat turns ’disturbing’ the parent needs to be made aware. (Etc etc)

Another case is TikTok: honestly, I’d just ban it together with shorts and reels. IMO this rots the brains of the younger generation. I’m not even sure there is a healthy way of consuming this type of content.

My company decided we don’t need phones and makes us use Teams for calls. Every day I think about murdering the person who made that decision.

Okay. But by what mechanism would these things be enforced without encroaching on the privacy and freedoms of adults? It’s the same problems as policing porn or violent media. No one wants the government looking over their shoulder.